Crisis Capitalism & the global pandemic: Inequalities, inoculation and investment

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No health response is complete without treatment. A central concern during the Covid-19 pandemic has been the creation & disbursal of vaccines for protection against the virus. Steve Keen, Amaka Vanni and Ladislou Dowbor offer their perspectives on how global capitalism is affecting our collective response to COVID-19.

Steve Keen
Steve Keen was one of the handful of economists to realize that a serious economic crisis was imminent, and to publicly warn of it from as early as December 2005 (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/). This, and his pioneering work on modelling debt-deflation, resulted in him winning the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review (http://rwer.wordpress.com/) for being the economist whose work is most likely to prevent a future financial crisis. His next book is The New Economics: A Manifesto. He blogs at www.patreon.com/profstevekeen.
Steve Keen

Dr Amaka Vanni
Amaka is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. Her work lies at the intersection of international economic law, development, and global governance. Her research and teaching are on topics of intellectual property, international trade, global health, and philanthrocapitalism. She holds a master’s in law degree in International Economic Law and completed a doctorate in the same field from the University of Warwick, UK. Her doctoral thesis won the 2018 HART/SIEL Prize in International Economic Law. Her monograph is titled ‘Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-making in Brazil, India and Nigeria’ (Oxford: Hart). Amaka is the current President of the African International Economic Law Network (AfIELN), and also a contributing editor of Afronomicslaw.org and the African Journal of International Economic Law. Read about her work here.
Amaka Vanni

Ladislau Dowbor
Dr. Ladislau Dowbor is a Senior Professor at Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo on the Political Economy Department. Dr. Dowbor received a PhD in Economics from Warsaw School of Economics, MSc in Social Economics from Warsaw School of Economics and BSc in Political Economy from Lausanne University. He participated as a Chief Technical Advisor at the United Nations (UN) in economic development and planning initiatives in different countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and currently is a consultant for some UN agencies. His latest books are “Beyond Capitalism: New Social Architectures” (2021) and “The Age of Unproductive Capital: New Architectures of Power” (2021) published by Cambridge Scholars.

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